Stephen Graham Jones Quotes

If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.

Stephen Graham Jones

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GoodPastChanceStoryPresentYou

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

Joao Lourenco

RichPowerfulPoorCannotPunished

When we did 'The Dragons' Trilogy,' China was a big, mysterious piece of rock that we never thought would even move. It was impenetrable, impossible to deal with.

Robert Lepage

ImpossibleThoughtRockNeverChina

If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

Aly Raisman

AgeI AmTeamWorldNowLimit

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Robert Fulghum

LoveChangeRideWorldEnoughWill

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

Rupert Everett

I AmPartnerDownWrongWantWay

Surrender to the flow.

Mike Gordon

SurrenderFlow

When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels as capes. My son does it, too.

Michael Pena

SonBrotherMeRememberChicagoKid

I've been very fortunate in my life.

Jason Jones

LifeMy LifeFortunateBeenVery

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

Javier Bardem

GodBelieveSaidI BelieveAlways

I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.

Jordin Sparks

LoveFootballMondayCollegeNight

There is no question that President Barack Obama should be commended for the successful removal of Assad's ghastly chemical weapons stockpile. But it hasn't been enough.

Dick Durbin

EnoughPresidentQuestionSuccessful

I didn't have drama in high school. So when I graduated high school and started at Wayne State in Detroit, I told my parents I was going to major in theater. And they were like, 'OK. Why? You've never done it.' But, it was just what I wanted, and they came to see my very first show and, from then, completely supported me.

Deborah Joy Winans

SchoolParentsMeHigh SchoolYou

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